Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 167, Issue 11

Hi Raj, The kind of thing I gather you did for #1 is almost always a bad idea. Guessing parameters in one fit and then setting them to the results for that fit in subsequent fits without further justification is asserting a certainty about those parameters that you do not possess. Occasionally it might be useful in an intermediate fit as a kind of diagnostic, but never in fits from which you want to extract information.* Note that the fit in which you set S02 is a different kind of constraint; rather than using the result of a previous fit, you used an a priori plausible value. While that can introduce its own biases, it at least is based on external information (a “reasonable" value for S02) rather than trying to do the fit in pieces (I’ll run a fit, find values for guessed parameters, and then set those to the first results for the next fit). Fundamentally, you just don’t have a good fit yet. Likely, something about the system is a bit different than you envisioned it. But that’s part of the point of using EXAFS, right? For fits to tell you that, and then you to use your knowledge about the system to try out plausible modifications to the model until you find something that works well, hopefully also supporting it with other lines of evidence? That’s not something we’re going to be able to do for you on this list; it’s the heart of the investigation you’re undertaking. Best, Scott Calvin Lehman College of the City University of New York *I say “never,” but I can think of one case where it might be justified, and wouldn’t be surprised if there are others. If you were trying to decide between a compound being 4-coordinated or 6-coordinated, and had some reason for thinking it was purely one or the other, then a fitted coordination number of, for example, 6.3 +/- 0.7 could reasonably be set to 6 in future fits. But that’s not the kind of circumstance you have.

On Jan 7, 2017, at 9:17 AM, Raj kumar wrote:

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your comments. Please see below for my answers.

1. Initially, i have started the fitting using single Eo but couldn't achieve satisfactory fit. Hence, moved to use two Eo's, one for first two shells and another for rest other shells, for fitting the curve. With this strategy, I have varied all parameters, including Eo's, mentioned in the previous table. As a result, i have identified appropriate Eo's for respective paths. Subsequently, evaluated all other parameters keeping both Eo's fixed. The result remains almost same irrespective of varying or fixing Eo's.

2. YbVO4 belongs to zircon structure. In this kind of structure, only the position of oxygen varies and leaving both metal atoms unmoved. The atomic config, I have used (YbVO4-Demeter: @ standard zircon position) for modelling is attached along with the COD database file. Both files having different oxygen positions and hence different splitting distances for first oxygen shell. Further, i have compared first two oxygen paths, obtained from COD file, with experimental signal. It seems, the second oxygen distance might be exaggerated. Again, please see attachment for the confirmation.

Regards, Raj

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1. Re: error when fitting in Artemis (George Sterbinsky) 2. Re: Problem with large so2: Updated (Scott Calvin)

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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:32:45 -0600 From: George Sterbinsky mailto:GeorgeSterbinsky@u.northwestern.edu> To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit mailto:ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov> Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] error when fitting in Artemis Message-ID: mailto:PYOKfKivpjFfeqmOALA95wJK%2B%2BYen%2BHAi70V3KH8_Q@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hi Robert and Bruce,

Thank you for your replies and, Robert, for providing a work-around. I too apologize for taking so long to respond. I was hoping to investigate the problem a bit further as to provide a more actionable bug report before responding to Robert, but in light of Bruce's message that no longer seems as necessary. I also do not see a "phase.bin" file on my computer, and I do see "0_Warning.txt". I will try to figure out when, in the history of the file, it became damaged and report back to the list if that information will help others prevent the problem or indicates a fix.

Thanks again, George

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Bruce Ravel mailto:bravel@bnl.gov> wrote:

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On 12/22/2016 12:11 PM, George Sterbinsky wrote:

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I have attached an Artemis project. Upon opening the project, and clicking the fit button the error in the attached log file is generated and the fit is not run. Looking at the history, fits have been run previously without error. The error message indicates Feff may need to be run again, but upon opening the Atoms and Feff window and then clicking on the Feff tab, I see the Run Feff button is grey and cannot be clicked. What steps are necessary in order to run a fit?

Hi George,

Sorry it has taken so long to respond. Partly holidays, partly that I have been doing a bunch of work on Demeter that needed to get finished.

So, the problem here does not seem to be a problem with Artemis. It seems to be an issue with someone's antivirus software.

The artemis.fpj is simply a zip file with a different file extension. Opening it up, one finds a folder called "feff". In the case of your project file, the relevant subfolder is "azxqc" (that's a randomly generated 5-character string, which is how Demeter names most things internally). In that folder, there should be a "phase.bin" file from the Feff run. It's absent. Instead, I see a file called "0_Warning.txt", the contents of which read:

BLOCKED FILE ALERT

A file has been blocked due to the 'Blocked for exchange' rule. Context: 'phase.bin' Disallowed due to Ticket Number: '09e8-5852-0da2-0001' See your system administrator for further information. Copyright 1999-2013 McAfee, Inc.All Rights Reserved.http://www.mcafee.com http://www.mcafee.com/

Now, I do not know if this happened when you mailed the project file to the list or if it happened at some other time. While the error message is certainly misleading in this case, I think that it is Artemis' way of complaining about the missing phase.bin file.

Perhaps there is some other problem at play. I don't know. But I cannot possibly troubleshoot that other problem given that an anti-virus package has, at some point, irretrievably damaged this project file.

I think that the only plausible work-around is Robert's suggestion. Reimport the feff.inp file, rerun Feff, exclude the existing path, drag-and-drop the replacement path, then push path parameter values from the old path to the new one. Awkward, but I don't know what else to suggest.

B

PS: If anyone has any kind of working knowledge of McAfee or any other AV software, I would be open to a suggestion for how to fix this. Is it a file /name/ problem -- should phase.bin be called something else? Is there something in the phase.bin file that triggered McAfee? Any wisdom would be welcome.

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